Renee J. James

Vice President
General Manager, Software and Services Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Renee J. James is vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group for Intel Corporation. She is responsible for delivering software products and support across Intel's entire product line by building and distributing software and services products and partnering with independent software partners in the industry. In addition, she is responsible for the Intel worldwide developer programs as well as R&D of next generation software. Her organization operates in more than 20 countries.

James is chairman of two Intel subsidiaries: Wind River Systems and Havok, both of which report into the Software and Services Group. Wind River Systems is a leading real-time operating system vendor and embedded software provider. Havok is a leading middleware provider offering software products for high performance gaming such as physics and animation.

Previously, James was vice president of Developer Programs. In this capacity, she was responsible for overseeing Intel's relationship and development efforts with partners such as Microsoft. Prior to that, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Solutions, Intel's datacenter business. She also served for four years as technical assistant to past Intel chairman and CEO Dr. Andrew S. Grove, now senior advisor to Executive Management. James has contributed to several key software and services efforts during her tenure at Intel: the first software video codecs (Indeo) and the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the unification of Unix on Intel Architecture. Additionally, she was part of the pioneering team working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to move applications to the Intel Architecture.

James joined Intel in 1988 with the acquisition of Bell Technologies. She received both her bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Oregon.

James currently serves as an independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and is a member of the Audit Committee. She is the chairman of Wind River Systems and Telekinesis Limited (Havok). James is also a member of the C200.